Yann E. Morin, maintainer of Crosstool-NG, has just announced version 1.7.0 of his toolchain building tool we like so much at Bootlin. For the record, Crosstool-NG allows to build cross-compiling toolchains for a wide-range of architectures, using either glibc, uClibc, eglibc or newlib, and everything is configured through a menuconfig interface, familiar to all embedded Linux developers.
Bootlin has contributed to this release, by adding some support for the Blackfin architecture, on which we have been working recently. Crosstool-NG is now capable of generating a FDPIC cross-compiling toolchain for Blackfin. FDPIC allows to use shared libraries even on no-MMU architectures like the Blackfin. This support of Blackfin in Crosstool-NG is only the beginning, a lot of work remains to be done to make sure that the toolchain works really well, and to support FLAT binaries and bare-metal as well.
Here are the patches that Bootlin has contributed for this release :
- Fix the uClibc clean-up-O_CLOEXEC-handling patch
- Re-enable the FD_PIC ELF configuration option
- Add basic support for the Blackfin architecture
- samples: add Blackfin sample
The other major changes for this release are :
- two new architectures have been added: Blackfin and mips64
- building canadian-crosses has been enhanced
- experimental support for gcc-4.5 has been added
- eglibc can be optimized for size (instead of speed)
- companion libraries can be built statically, removing the need for a wrapper
- many components versions have been added, and associated patchsets updated
- some less important new features, or enhancements for stability and usability
- a lot of bug-fixes, of which some to help on Darwin & *BSD
The 1.7.0 release can be downloaded at http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/download/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-1.7.0.tar.bz2 and the homepage of the Crosstool-NG project is http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool. Enjoy !
